There are some great giveaways to be won at the Happy Endings Giveaway hop!We authors have been asked to tell a story with a happy ending.
Here's mine.
We live in the countryside outside Sydney, Australia. A creek runs along the bottom of our land. In the recent heavy rain it had almost broken it's banks. Around lunchtime, our cat, Africa went for a wander. She was never away long, she's a home loving cat. A champagne Persian, she has a lovely nature and my husband and I adore her. When the hours passed and she didn't come home, I began to worry. I walked around the neighborhood calling her. We get the odd snake here and I worried that she might be hurt, or worse. I checked the roads and was relieved when I didn't spy her little furry body. It grew dark, my husband was on the expressway returning home and I was now convinced that something had happened to her. I walked down through the grounds of the neighboring house in the dim light to the creek calling her. Disheartened, I turned away, to return to the house and await my husband with the distressing news. Halfway up the garden I heard a faint mew. Racing back to the creek I called her. She mewed again. I spied her through the gloom standing on the opposite bank. The creek was too deep for me to cross. I wasn't sure what to do, to go by road meant losing sight of her for a while. Before I could decide, Affie decided for me. She swam across the creek! I have never seen a cat swim, and I knew Affie had a strong aversion to water. She followed me meekly home. She was exhausted and covered with thick mud! Something had obviously startled her possibly a snake. She'd fallen into the creek and, finding herself on the opposite bank, then got lost. I ran a warm bath and stood her in it. She quietly let me wash the grit and mud from her fur, an amazing thing in itself.
(Africa was rescued from the pound in a dreadful state with matted fur and the flu when she was 8 months old.)
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